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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WILHELM PETZOLD, OF LEIPSIC, ASSIGNOB TO JOHANN WILHELM WOHLERS,

OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

ClGARfCUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Ifatent No. 242,690, dated June 7, 1881.

Application tiled April 14, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM PETZOLD, of

Leipsic, in the Empire of Germany, have invented a certain new and Improved Cigar- Outter, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a very desirable utensil for cutting out a V- shaped piece from the tip of a cigar and forinio ing therein a groove or notch of corresponding shape, thereby increasing the cut surface through which the smoke may be drawn.

The invention consists in the combination of a stock or handle having a funnel-shaped opening in its end for the insertion of a cigar, a lever carrying an angular or V-shaped knife pivoted in the opposite end of said handle or stock, a spring for throwing the lever outward, and a spring-catch for engaging with said 1ever and holding it in its closed position, as fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved cutter. Fig. 2 is a section thereof in a plane parallel with the plane of movement of said lever. Fig. 43 represents a section at right angles thereto. Fig. 4 represents a transverse section 011 the dotted line x x, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 represents an end view, and Fig. 6 represents a cigar having its tip cut by my improved cutter.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the shell handle or stock of the cutter. This shell or stock may be made similar to the handle=of a pocket-knife, but at one end it carries a funnel-like guide, a, for receiving the point of the cigar. This funnel is very clearly shown in Fig. 3. To the other end of shell A i'spivoted a lever, B, which lits 4o between the Walls or sides of the handle or stock, and carries a V-shaped knife, C, at the end adjacent to the funnel a, as clearly shown. The said knife works transversely to the funnel a, and the lower edge of the funnel is made ofsimilar shape to the knife, solthat the knife Will Work close to the funnel. A suitable spring, m, is employed to throw the lever B up or outward in the direction away from under the funnel, but it is arrested hy the end ofthe knife engaging with the top rim 5o of funnel a, as will be understood by reference to Fig. 2.

The end of the cigar is inserted into the funv nel a when the knife is up, as in Figs. 1 and 2, and then the knife is forced down to detach the point of the cigar from the body thereof, and at the sametimecuta V'shaped groove into the body of the cigar, as is illustrated atb, Fig. 6. After the knife is pressed down it is arrested in this closed positionY by a springcatch, 1", placed inside of the shell. The point 0f the catch enters a hole or recess, s, in the handle or stock B. For opening the knife again a pressureis exerted on pin d, which is fastened at one end to spring-catch r and projects through the opposite side ofthe body. When the pin d is pressed inward the catch fr is disengaged from the hole s and the lever is thrown out by the spring m.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Paten t, is-

A cigar-cutter constructed of the handle A, lever B, and Vshaped knife O, said handle being provided with a funnel, a, catch r, and stop-pin d, substantially as herein shown and described.

WILHELM PETZOLD.

Witnesses:

F. ENGEL, A. SCHAPER. 

